03 December 2019

Sandbox - 3dec19

[From the last Sandbox I will repeat my 920am invitation. 'Paul, you guys continue going after the low-hanging fruit on Trump. Why don't you instead take on something more meaningful to Americans? - your assertions that tax rates don't affect economic behavior, or 'border walls don't work', or more regulations encourage commerce and entrepreneurial activity, or capitalism has created all the world's ills, or bigger government taking on a bigger share of the economy is better, or people are indifferent to living among others more like themselves, or ... . There are so many things you guys believe in that you should really attempt to substantiate instead of displaying your ongoing spasms of TDS.' gjr]

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@ 3:00 pm

Well, Trump did call the Canadian boy toy “two faced”. One face whitey, one face blackie. That Trump is a seriously funny guy. Hmmm, Trump did call out the slacker Justin for Canada being far in arrears in their Nato commitments. Just like that former E. German soldier Angie who destroyed a formerly fine continent with her open borders. Time for Angie to get off the wagon and help push. Pay to play, people.

No doubt Trump walks into the room and shows who is the real boss of NATO. The free loaders cower before him with their ‘yes sir, no sirs’ like the good little underlinings they are. Then, as soon as the Bossman Trump leaves, they gather in the lunch room to snivel and whine and gossip and backbite like the little water cooler attendants they are. Toothless dogs being all brave like after Trump leaves the room. Oh, how they love to bitch about the CEO....but are too cowardly to do so to his face. They are too afraid of getting put over Trump’s knee and spanked if the act that way in front of our US President. They are ripping the US taxpayer off and Trump ain’t going to take their lip no more. America First.
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In other news, the threat to the Electoral College.

Actually, by any measure, Trump did NOT "inherit" a healthy economy - he inherited a long-stagnating economy with the slowest recession recovery rate in US history brought about by a combatively incompetent president and (for most of his terms) a socialist leaning Congress. Things took off when the Republican House abetted by the newly elected Trump were able to get their hands on the knobs and levers of our economy. It is this widely understood fact that is scaring the bejeezus out of the Dems today, and why they are doing everything possible to either get Trump out before his term expires, or taint him with the sleaziest and most dangerous impeachment circus ever conceived. For the Dems, the nation be damned, it's their party über alles.

I can give you the minute the economy started to take off.
One minute after the results came in and Trump was announced the WINNER of the election. Trump got those offshore businesses to start coming home that night! Those jobs Dougy's boy "O" said " ain't coming back" did at the speed of Trump.
Dougy's memory is as bad as Emery's.

Now weren't you singing their praises just yesterday Emery?
"A Quinnipiac Poll released on Tuesday shows “[s]lightly more than half of all registered voters, 51 percent, think that President Trump should not be impeached and removed from office, while 45 percent say he should be impeached and removed.” "

Comrade deblasio creates the problem and then just flushes his toilet into other cities what a socialist scumbag, perhaps he should run for mayor of Havana. -

Cities across the United States are grappling with large homeless populations, but New York City decided to deal with the problem by relocating those sleeping in the streets or in shelters to other American cities.

The New York Post reported that city records show that homeless people have been sent to 373 American cities.

The Post also reported that since the program started in 2017, New York has relocated 5,074 families, or 12,482 people, to other areas in the city, the state, and around the country.

Don
Cattle’s futures were once big...back in the day. :)
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Oh my. The Leftinistas will not like this one bit. That is going to really mess with the Squad, not to mention half the Democrat Party and the Black Israelites...and BLM....and Rev. Wright and Liberal Professors and SPLC and the NYT and.......l.l.

Walt @ 5:31: Thanks for saying it. The economic rebound did not begin with Trump's assumption of executive power, it began the moment he was elected and the people that make this country what it is realized that the fucking 'democrats' wouldn't be running the place for the next eight years. That's all it took.

Ironic, too, that the dims (via their media sycophants) are actually responsible for the Orange Devil's election in the first place. Had they not contributed some $2B American in free PR to get him nominated (thinking him the easiest to defeat of a fairly competent group of R's), he would never have been in a position to kick HRC to the curb.

Thanks L,, Trump wasn't/isn't a politician. He was known for getting shit done. He followed through on what he said he would do. Not like the run of the mill vote whores. Once in office, make every excuse why they can't do what they said they would.
That's what really pisses off the LIBS.. They can't get him to bow to their demands. And none of this "The fine gentleman from
....(name your Proggy shithole) Nope,, just like last night. Called Schiff for what he is.... Priceless.

,,,no spying on Trump, no Obama phone taps, no foreign born Obama, no informants, no Ukraine meddling in US elections, Trump's wall hits another roadblock, the economy is doing well, what's not to like???

So defensive……must be the recognition that you will likely end your time above the dirt with the Tangerine Tornado still comfortably ensconsed in the Oval Office…. all of your progressive ankle biting for naught!

“As he was wrapping up the segment, Fredo again purported “There is no proof of spying, zero, and we'll take you through it with an FBI vet who’s owed an apology by our President.” The FBI vet supposedly in need of an apology from Trump was McCabe.”

L sez: "The economic rebound did not begin with Trump's assumption of executive power, it began the moment he was elected and the people that make this country what it is realized that the fucking 'democrats' wouldn't be running the place for the next eight years. That's all it took."

Not a bad idea, that the economy isn't run through the heavy hand of government via wise mens' decisions but instead can be operated by mass attitude. Go figger.

re: the President's EO targetting anti-Semitism

It's funny to me how the Left has made anti-Semitism cool via the dog whistle of being anti-Israeli. No doubt there are a few in the Blue Mob with a nuanced view, but for people who are generally anti-Jewish, it sure is a nice cover to run underneath.

Why impeach now? “The argument, ‘Why don’t you just wait?’ amounts to this: ‘Why don’t you just let him cheat in one more election? Why not let him have foreign help one more time?’” —Adam Schiff, alluding to the debunked conspiracy theory about Trump colluding with Russia to win in 2016

The BIG Lie, continued: “But here’s the big deal. Where I come from, I don’t like people telling me what I have to choose. So, the 160 million people who have busted their neck, walked down picket lines, gave up pay, took hits in order to get significant healthcare available, you get to keep it under my plan. You don’t have to give it up. The important thing on ObamaCare … is you get to keep your doctor and all that kind of thing. This is a totally different issue. You get to keep the healthcare plan you have and you want.” —Joe Biden

And last… “If it offends or bothers you that a 16-year-old on the world stage is criticized, then stop pushing her onto the world stage.” —Steven Crowder

,,,Trump didn't mean to abuse the power of the Presidency,,,he and his family thought abuse of power and fraud were business as usual...

,,,Maybe we should give this poor maligned President a pass???

"The settlements also include mandatory training requirements for Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump. Finally, the settlements name the charities that will receive the remaining assets of the Trump Foundation as part of its dissolution"

''Given Trump’s presidential election victory in November, the authors decided to do new research on Trump University. The authors believe that the management of Trump University illuminates a business approach that could be indicative of Trump’s dealings as president. The authors also believe that as the Trump University legal case comes to a close, it’s worth revisiting the statements of individuals who paid for the program and complained about being taken advantage of. As part of this work, the authors studied state records and court documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests from multiple sources, as well as previous research, and examined aspects of documents pertaining to Trump University that they believe have not previously been examined. The authors also studied Trump’s public statements on the case and examined customer surveys to shed light on participants’ experience in Trump University.

The findings provide some important insights, given the fact that Trump himself helped orchestrate Trump University.11 Indeed, the evidence is clear that the president was involved in many key decisions surrounding the educational initiative, and at least for some prosecutors, it seemed that Trump engaged in “patterns of racketeering activity,” and did so “knowingly, willfully, and unlawfully,” through the management of the fraudulent organization."

Team 0's deep state swamp creatures are also ignoring genocide laws because the victims are Christians -

The State Department officially designated the Yazidis and Iraqi Christians as victims of genocide in 2014, but the RCP article asserted that “bureaucratic factions within the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development are acting as though the genocide declaration never occurred.”

The response of State Department bureaucrats to these administration directives and congressional actions, according to the report, echoes officials who told House Democrats during their impeachment hearings that they determine U.S. foreign policy, not the elected President of the United States

IDC produced a report documenting the problems with the U.N. work, which concluded that U.N. projects in the Nineveh Plains area of Iraq have been “rife with problems” with projects “often poorly completed and no adequate auditing mechanisms in place to check their work.”

For example, photos of a school in the town of Teleskof that the U.N. listed as refurbished through its work, showed new paint on the exterior with stenciled UNICEF logos every 30 feet. Inside, the school remained rubble and unusable without power, water and furniture. The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is a UNDP partner.

Stephen Rasche, the legal counsel and director of the internally displaced people resettlement programs for the Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil, testified to the House Foreign Affairs panel in the fall of 2017 that HR 390 was desperately needed because there is so little oversight of the UNDP assistance program that some U.S. dollars were going to benefit Iraqis who took over areas that persecuted Christians fled from even though the U.N. said the project was aimed at helping Christians.

Rasche also testified that UNDP claimed that work projects in the Iraqi town of Tel Kaif were directed to assist religious minority communities, even though no Christians remained there.
Aid dollars began sluggishly moving in late 2019, about a year after USAID supposedly “got serious” about complying with presidential and congressional directives. The bureaucracy wound up creating a “New Partners Initiative” that has disbursed “six very modest awards” to date.

According to RCP’s sources, the big money since 2018 has gone to “Catholic Relief Services, the Catholic Church’s large umbrella humanitarian organization, as well as the Chicago-based Heartland Alliance, an anti-poverty organization with ties to the Obama Foundation that had no significant prior working relationships or contact with displaced Iraqi Christian groups.”

Vice President Pence’s infuriated reaction indicates that isn’t what the administration had in mind when it ordered the State Department bureaucracy to help religious organizations in Iraq provide assistance to victims of genocide.

BREXIT WINS BIGGER THAN THE FIRST TIME 368 CONSERVATIVE - 191 LABOR! With high turnout the socialists were trounced and the conservatives have a win nearly as big as Lady Thatcher in 87!! Preview of 2020 here? -

Poor Dougy.. thinks he had something on Trump, but refuses to admit to Hillary and Bill's (ha!) non profit pay to play scam.

When access to the White House and favorable treatment by the U.S. dried up, so did the massive uh,,,"donations" to that *charity*.
Now Hillary see's a Russian operative everywhere. Even in her own party

Here is another fact you LIBS can stay real quiet about.(it's in your best interests.)
Your impeachment stooges accuse Trump of withholding aid to the Ukraine. Not even close to what your boy "O" did. "O" let Putin have a nice chunk of real estate by withholding that same aid you boobs accuse Trump of doing.
Nope not one of you SOBS will admit that pooch screwing.

It's going to be fun to watch with morbid glee, your Queen of the Damned swallow that poisoned pill when she hands the impeachment papers to the Senate. (and this game comes back to bite you in the ass on election day.)
That's where you LIBS get to look like the asses you really are.
The ways you will lose this are stacking up. All out rejection due to lack of evidence? Summary judgment and acquittal? A LONG drawn out trial to keep the wannabe Presidents off the campaign trail?(I like that idea)

Oh my. I missed so much today. This morning there was Car-load first out the gates going off about Trump University in 2010. Whatz up with dat? Wild hair? As the afternoon progressed on the road, I figured it out. The Unhinged Leftinistas were on the House floor today, going bonkers on Trump University, Stormy Daniels (again), Jim Crow, Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Act, the marches, and Trump is going to take away the black folks right to vote!!!! They demanded justice, even that clown who thought adding 8,000 servicemen to Guam’s 175,000 population would make the island tip over. He stands in judgement us, ROFLMAO. Hard to take them seriously even with two tons of salt. What got into them this fine day?? A great mystery.

Then I found out it was all about impeachment. I couldn’t believe it. They ran the old tapes and lists of grievances. Probably missed the part about Trump mocking that NYT reporter. Ableism. Hmmm. I thought they had a closed case. Silly me. All I can say is we are holding all the cards and no need to play defensive. They are reeling on their back heels.

Jerry the nads would be a senior jurist in Stalin's or Hitler's 'courts' with this or even Alice in wonderland! -

Reading from a prepared text, Nadler argued: “The House rule does not require me to schedule a hearing on a particular day, nor does it require me to schedule the hearing as a condition precedent to taking any specific legislative action.”

In other words, he interpreted the rule as allowing him to schedule the minority witness hearing after the articles of impeachment had already passed.

Did botox get played by her left flank to our electoral benifit, it seems so. Schiff for brains and crew are the gift that just keeps on giving. -

On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that after months of haggling over key details, House Democrats had officially agreed to back a revised version of Trump’s new trade pact ­— an announcement made just one dizzying hour after House Democratic leaders unveiled articles of impeachment against him.

Many progressives were apoplectic about the mixed messaging, arguing — like Trump — that the USMCA would effectively help keep in office the same dangerous president Democrats were simultaneously endeavoring to remove.

“Nothing more perfectly embodies the Democratic party than announcing articles of impeachment and a huge deal with the President on his single biggest priority on the same day,” tweeted MSNBC host Chris Hayes.

“House Dems were elected on a wave of anti-Trump sentiment and are now diligently working to ensure his reelection and send the message to the electorate that impeachment is just meaningless partisan theater,” added the Atlantic’s Adam Serwer.

“The white working class, those blue-collar workers who had been tribal Labour supporters for generations, voted en masse for the Conservatives for the first time ever.

Boris Johnson effectively smashed the “red wall”, the swathes of hitherto rock-solid Labour-held seats in the north of England and the Midlands which all turned blue overnight.

Astoundingly, economically shattered communities with very high levels of poverty and unemployment, even former mining towns whose inhabitants had voted Labour virtually from the time the party was invented, all voted on Thursday for an Eton-educated, plummy-voiced toff in preference to the leader of the Labour party.

Why? Because the British working-class is deeply, passionately patriotic and attached to democracy. They are the very best of Britain. Time and again they have saved the country in its wars against tyranny by putting their lives on the line to defend what it stands for: their historic culture, institutions and values.

That’s because it was trying to straddle its two constituencies: working-class Brexiteers and the liberal metropolitan intelligentsia who control the party. These liberal universalists all voted to remain in the EU. And they haven’t stopped denigrating those who voted Brexit as half-witted, racist xenophobes.

It’s hard to exaggerate the anger by the Brexit-voting working-class at what they saw as an anti-democratic coup by Remainer Labour MPs who were determined to stop Brexit and spit in the eye of democracy.

These working-class voters also believe in hard work, responsibility and their own human dignity. They feel patronised and demeaned by welfare dependency, and have absolutely no time for the metropolitan liberals’ social agenda.”